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01-12-2016 - SpecialCITY OF WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL PLANNING COMMISSION TUESDAY JANUARY 12, 2016, 6:00 PM SPECIAL MEETING CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS 1444 W. GARVEY AVENUE SOUTH WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA 91790 CITY COUNCIL Mayor James Toma Mayor Pro Tern Corey Warshaw Councilman Lloyd Johnson Councilman Mike Spence Councilman Tony Wu PLANNING COMMISSION Vice Chairman Dario Castellanos Commissioner Sheena Heng Commissioner Donald Holtz Commissioner Jose Jimenez Commissioner Herb Redholtz Please furn off all cell phones andother electronic devices prior to entering the Council Chomhers AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT The City complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you will need special assistance at Council meetings, please call (626) 939-8433 (voice) or (626) 960-4422 (TTY) from 8 to 5 Monday through Thursday. Do call at least one day prior to the meeting date to inform us of your particular needs and to determine if accommodation is possible. For sign language interpreter services at Council meetings, please request no less than four working days prior to the meeting. A GE NDA MA TE'RIA L Agenda material is available for review at the City Clerk's Office, Room 317 in City Hall, 1444 W. Garvey Avenue South, West Covina and at wiviv.westcovina.ti . Any writings or documents regarding any item on this agenda, not exempt from public disclosure, provided to a majority of the City Council that is distributed less than 72 hours before the meeting, will be made available for public inspection in the City Clerk's Off -ice, Room 3 17 of City Hall located at 1444 W. Garvey Avenue South, West Covina, during normal business hours. NOTICE The City Council will regularly convene on the first and third Tuesday of the month. The West Covina Community Development Commission, West Covina Public Financing Authority and the West Covina Community Services Foundation are agencies on which the City Council serves as members. Agendas may contain items for these boards, as necessary. I CERTIFY THAT A COPY OF THE COUNCIL AGENDA FOR THEMEETINGOF) 11Z.11 6VAS POSTED IN ACCORDAffNX A�1187 BROWN ACT AMENDMENT OFFICE OF T1-CCWC--LERK Tuesday January 12, 2016 PUBLIC COMMENTS ADDRESSING THE CITY COUNCIL (Per WCMC 2-48, Ordinance No. 2150) If you wish to address the City Council during this Special Meeting, you may only address the City Council concerning the item(s) that are described on the agenda and in the notice for the Special Meeting per Government Code Section 5495433(a). Please complete a speaker card that is provided at the entrance and Submit to the City Clerk I Please identify on thespeaker cardthe agenda itentyou wish to address to the City Council. All comments are limited to five (5) minutes per speaker. Oral Communications may be limited to thirty (30) minutes, unless speakers addressing agenda items have not concluded. Any testimony or comments regarding a matter set for a Public Hearing will be heard during the hearing. RULESOFDECORUM Excerpts from the West Covina Municipal Code and Penal Code pertaining to the Rules of Decorum will be found at the end of the agenda. Agenda material is available at wwiv. ivestcovina.org Tuesday January 12, 2016 AGENDA CITY OF WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL TUESDAY JANUARY 12, 2016, 6:00 PM SPECIAL MEETING PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL JOINT MEETING 1) GENERAL PLAN UPDATE (GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 14-02) AND DOWNTOWN PLAN AND CODEJOINT MEETING, DIRECTION TO BEGIN PREPARATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT A. Staff Presentation B. City Council/Planning Commission Comments C. Public Comments D. Planning Commission Recommendation to City Council E. City Council Direction F. Recommendation: It is recommended that the Planning Commission and City Council take the following actions: 1.) Planning Commission provide recommendation to City Council on direction on the draft General Plan Update and Downtown Plan and Code, specifically on the vision of forecasted development for Downtown and other areas of the City, to allow for analysis in the Environmental Impact Report (EIR); and 2.) City Council provide direction on the draft General Plan Update and Downtown Plan and Code, specifically on the vision of forecasted development for Downtown and other areas of the City, to allow for analysis in the Environmental Impact Report (EIR); and 3.) City Council adopt Resolution No. 2016-01 initiating a Code Amendment to consider adopting a Downtown Plan to become the zoning for that district. Motion by second by adopt disapprove hold over ADJOURNMENT 3 Agenda material is available at www.)vestcovina.org Tuesday January 12, 2016 I RULES OF DECORUM I Thefollowing are excerpts,froin the West Carina Municipal Code: See. 2-48. Manner of addressing council; time limit; persons addressing may be sworn. (a) Each person addressing the council shall step up to the rostrum, shall give his or her name and city of residence in an audible tone of voice for the record and unless further time is granted by the council, shall limit his or her address to five (5) minutes. (b) The city council may establish a limit on the duration of oral communications. (c) All remarks shall be addressed to the council as a body and not to any member thereof No person, other than the council and the person having the floor, shall be permitted to enter into any discussion, either directly or through a member of the council, without the permission of the presiding officer. No question shall be asked of a councilinember except through the presiding officer. (d) The presiding officer may require any person to be sworn as a witness before addressin.- the council on any subject. Any such person who, having taken an oath that lie or she will testify truthfully, willfully and contrary, to such oath states as true any material matter which he knows to be false may be held to answer criminally and subject to the penalty prescribed for perjury by the provisions of the Penal Code of the state. See. 2-50. Decorum --Required. (a) While the council is in session, the mernbeis must preserve order and decorum, and a member shall neither, by conversation or otherwise, delay or interrupt the proceedings or the peace of the council nor disturb any member while speaking or refuse to obey the orders of the council or its presiding officer, except as otherwise herein provided. (b) Any person making personal, impertinent or slanderous remarks or who shall become boisterous while addressing the council shall be forthwith, by the presiding officer, barred from further audience before the council, unless permission to continue be granted by a majority vote of the council. Sec. 2-52. Persons authorized to be witbin council area. No person, except city officials, their representatives and members of the news media shall be permitted within the rail in front of the council chamber without the express consent of the council. Thefollowing are excerpisfrom the Penal Code 148(a) (1) Every Person who willfully resists, delays, or obstructs any public officer, peace officer, or an emergency medical technician, as defined in Division 2.5 (commencing with Section 1797) of the Health and Safety code, in the discharge or attempt to discharge an), duty of his or her office or employment, when no other punishment is prescribed, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. 403 Every person who, without authority of law, willfully disturbs or breaks up any assembly or meeting that is not unlawful in its character, other than an assembly or meeting referred to in Section 303 of the Penal Code or Section 18340 of the Elections Code, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 4 Agenda material is available at wivmwesteovina.org